We Love Harry Potter! [Paperback]

Sharon Moore (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up

Harry Potter-by now the name is surely as magical to you as it is to the millions of others who are devouring the books in J.K. Rowling's awesome series. Do you want to find out what others are saying about how they'd like to fly on a hippogriff or raise a pet dragon? What it would be like if they were students at Hogwarts and played on a Quidditch team? Their opininons on what really happened to Hary's parents? Read letters kids have written to Harry Potter, Hagrid, Hermione, and many ot the books' other unforgettable characters. Like the Harry Potter books themselves, We Love Harry Potter! is a treat for all ages!

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book has not been authorized or endorsed by J.K. Rowling or the publishers of the Harry Potter books.

About the Author

Sharon Moore is the author of The First Blue Jeans, a children's reader, and has worked on several previous projects with Lamppost Press, the pac kager for this book and for many other books of interest to children and teens. She has also written books and articles on food and travel.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031226481X
• ISBN-13: 978-0312264819
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,603,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shows less respect than those who wanted to ban the book., January 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: We Love Harry Potter! (Paperback)

I bought this book out of optimism, because I thought that anything praising Harry Potter would be relatively harmless. When I ordered the fourth instalment from a shop, I was nearly made to buy it again. Thankfully, I didn't - once was enough.

What is the point of this book? Reading this repeatedly is enough to put you off Harry Potter. The book itself is divided into sections, as follows:

1. The children's opinions on the series. Most of the children made mistakes that showed how little they had understood of the Harry Potter books, such as talking about "Madam Pooch", and asking, "I don't see why Mrs Norris had to die..." when she didn't. The information that was correct was usually unhelpful and unnecessary. Even people who haven't read the books have probably gathered by now that Harry is, well, the goodie. They even went so far as to tell us personal information about their pets: "I have a pet frog whom I keep in a cage and feed crickets." Ms Moore didn't help, either; she regularly wrote unnecessary columns between the letters to talk about such irrelevant matters as Thanksgiving dinner and Valentine's Day.

There were "letters" to Hogwarts, there was a trivial trivia quiz and there was even an anagram puzzle in which about half the words were related to wizardry. There were comments about how Quidditch could be played on the ground, or with scrap metal claws (enough said), and even some pointless recipes - or, in some cases, non-recipes. A quote: "Last year I mad a restaurant called Slimy Louie's which served Road Kill Stew and Rat-tat-tooy. I didn't include Stuffed Owl because you wouldn't want to eat Hedwig or Errol." I won't make any more comments. I don't think they're needed. This material is normally channelled into amateur websites, not books.

On the back you will read: "Do you want to find out what others have said about how they'd like to fly on a hippogriff or raise a pet dragon?" Think about this. Do you? As other reviewers have commented, there's nothing new to be gained from this book. However, I have thought of one use for this book. It would be superb, all 100 or so pages of it, as kindling for a bonfire. And that's what I'm going to use my copy as.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is just pointless., August 22, 2000

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Enchilada O' Doom (New Mexico, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Love Harry Potter! (Paperback)

I wish they WOULDN'T tell us why they love Harry Potter... or, if they must insist on such behavior, then I secondly wish that they would say something other than "I love Harry; I hate Voldemort" until they are blue in the face. The book's just a gimmick to make money off of Harry's fame, so don't buy into it (literally). There's nothing new to be gleaned from this unless one is specifically looking for a bunch of monotonous 8-year-old praise.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Most disappointing, I thought it would be so much better., March 6, 2001

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M_Girl (Somewhere in Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: We Love Harry Potter! (Paperback)

In this collection, children talked about the Harry Potter books. Unfortunately, the entire first half of this book was endless reviews of the books, many of which were wrong and/or repititious. I was bored out of my mind by these reviews, which told the storyline but not what the children enjoyed about the books, and HELLO, we already KNOW the storylines, right? The last part was some letters and recipes and other things, and overall the title "We love Harry Potter; WE'LL TELL YOU WHY" is completely false. I wish it had been thought out more and better edited.